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Posted on 09/10/07

Leader of the Tudor Rat Pack

Like most of us, Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers carried around the image in his head of King Henry VIII as "quite repulsive, overweight and racked with illness," a stereotype reinforced by the official royal portraits painted in the latter days of the bloated king's 38-year reign.

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